Bonhams will be holding their next “Entertainment Memorabilia” (auction 20771) sale event in Knightsbridge on July 3rd. This sale includes a mix of film/television as well as music related memorabilia, with a total of 399 lots.
The online auction catalog for the sale can be viewed at Bonhams.com:
The music-related material listed in this sale is particularly impressive.
This auction also continues with a series of iconic Indiana Jones-related pieces papered by Kit West (see Lot 141 Raiders of the Lost Ark – an original fertility idol). Further exploration of the second fertility idol attributed to Raiders of the Lost Ark and listed for public auction by Bonhams with Kit West paperwork can be found in the following article: ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ Fertility Idols In The Marketplace Update 2013
As an update to an item highlighted in their Los Angeles sale on May 5th, the pair of tablets attributed to the film classic, The Ten Commandments (see Lot 3130), realized $60,000 at auction. Profiles in History had filed a lawsuit against a bidder in their own December 2012 auction for failing to pay for a different set of the same style of prop (see “Profiles in History Files Fraud Lawsuit Against Non-Paying Auction Bidder on “Ten Commandments” Movie Prop Tablets” for an archive of such props sold at auction and other details (auction house, price realized, date sold, etc.).
Jason DeBord